While the ATLS System has greatly enhanced the realism of grade level crossings, there's one thing that would be awesome. Allow users to decided which trains to honor and ignore within a specific priority. I'm having an issue with that on my current project were I'm forced to keep the station at a distance due to the fact I have commuter trains that stop at a station but overnight passenger trains running at speeds of up to 79 mph. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the option to have the ATLS Trigger not honor that train or another at that distance. If I set up another trigger just for that one train, then it'll throw off all the other ones as well. Even if I place as a basic setup; as the others are four trigger advanced users configuration. Any ideas or input you guys have to give to me?
ATLS & Specific Trains
- Thread starter Kris94
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JackClare1995
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You can set up triggers to talk to specific priority trains. I'd change your priority setup though. I use: 1-High speed passenger services, 2-Local passenger services, 3-Freight services. On a crossing with a station adjacent to it, place a trigger about 1.5 miles back to be triggered when priority 1 & 3 trains pass it, and a trigger roughly at the end of the platform to be accepted by priority 2 trains. This will lower the barriers for the through-passenger and freight services before the train even comes into sight, but keep the barriers raised until a priority 2 train is just about to stop at the station
Jack
Jack
Well the issue is I have priority markers set up to where passenger trains use the outside tracks for access to the platform and the freight trains to use the inside tracks if you know what I mean.
JackClare1995
Member
Yes, you would need three separate triggers in that case. Put the trigger for priority 1 and 3 trains quite a while back but adjacent to each other on their correct track (i.e. Priority 1 trigger on the outside track and priority 3 on the inside track) and then put a trigger for priority 2 trains about mid-way down the platform. Then, just on the other side of the crossing (about 5m away from the far side of the crossing), place a trigger on the outside track for priority 1 and 2 trains (so the crossing knows the high speed passenger/local passenger train has passed) and a trigger on the inside track for priority 3 trains (so the crossing knows the freight train has passed) 
trainman7616
Western Maryland Addict
Oh man Jack you confused me. The way I do it is just set the triggers to different channels then make a switch and conect them with the crossings aswell as the other triggers. works like a dream but it can be tricky.
There are driver commands for 2-way and 4-way style, use them instead of the triggers so if you don't want the crossing activated leave out the driver commands. Simple, put a track mark where the trigger was, use a drive via, active ATLS, drive..., deactivate ATLS continue on